Sefer HaUbar L’HaKadmon … Rabbi Avraham bar Chiya HaNasi … who lived in 1123; this is the first book about leap years … copied from the king’s library in Paris … and printed for the first time by Tzvi ben Yechezkel Philipovski.” London, 1851. High-quality, beautiful printing. With tables and charts.
Printed at the end is the beginning of Moreh Nevuchim by the Ramba”m, with an introduction. [8] leaves were printed, and then the printing stopped, apparently because at that time, another edition of Moreh Nevuchim was printed in London. This work is included in A. M. Haberman’s article in Areshet III, 1961, p. 114, no. 38.
8, 122, XX p. 18 cm.
Fine-very fine condition. Aging stains. Old binding.